Tweet random haikus

See the result on Twitter

I like Markov Chains, and I like haikus, so this is my attempt at creating a Twitter bot that tweets Markov-Chain-generated haikus. It's not meant to be blazing fast, but it should count syllables fairly accurately. Oh, and it uses Reddit for source texts, so yay!

Tweet a random haiku:

python3 /path/to/pyku_ebooks/tweet.py

The first time will take longer than normal (~1 minute), because it has to parse the CMU pronunciation dictionary for word syllable lengths. Subsequent runs should run more quickly.

Every time you run tweet.py the program grabs some text using the reddit API from the front page of either /r/WritingPrompts or /r/ocPoetry (randomly) and builds a Markov Chain from it. Because it fetches and compiles the chains every time, it can be a little slow.

If you'd rather use static source texts and persistant Markov Chains, take a look at spejamchr/haiku_ebooks. This repo is a port of that one, designed to run from a Raspberry Pi that already has Python installed.

• python3 (I'm using python 3.7.0)
• twitter for tweeting

Heads up: this is more a collection of scripts than a package.

• Clone the git repo: git clone https://github.com/spejamchr/pyku_ebooks.git
• Make sure twitter is installed too: pip install twitter
• Rename keys.example.yml to keys.yml and put your Twitter keys and access tokens in there

Original author: Spencer Christiansen

haiku_ebooks is released under the MIT License.